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April 24, 2009

Doorstep Menus: Baby Blues BBQ (NSFW?)

Mostly good reviews on Yelp, but no Health Department inspections posted (strange that they opened without an inspection). So we really have nothing to say except...what's happening on the cover of this menu?!?!

What's with all the negativity. Firstly, it's quite irresponsible, and perhaps slanderous for the blogger to write that the restaurant "opened without an inspection." This is a huge presumption to make and a potentially damaging one. Fact check anyone?

A pinup like this is a slice into American pop culture, which is the era from which this cuisine comes. Dismissing it as "white-trash" and "tasteless" really seems to be uninformed about the many facets of our rich American culture. I think the menu cover shows imagination and is true to the era.

A pinup like this was quite common in the 50's. This is reminiscent of a female figure being tattooed on your grandfather's arm. This image I think is classic American mythology, more like a close relative of the mythology of a mermaid.

Re: "fact check" -- regular readers of this series (Doorstep Menus) know that we post links to publicly available Health Dept scores (the irregular readers can follow the link we provided in the post). No records are currently available online, but that does not mean we're naive enough to believe that San Francisco would actually allow a restaurant to open without an inspection.

I don't take offense at the word "kosher" being used. I think it's quite an honor for words to find their way into the culture. It is interesting to me when words are borrowed. It's also a sign of acceptance. In this context, it conveys the expectation of meeting specific standards of quality.

Well, uhhh, don't move to France. This is extremely reminiscent of the Perrier label art I saw on their bottles when I was in France a couple years ago: On the front of the label was a girl in the same pose dressed in green with something to the effect of "the other side of this label will make your head spin". It was the reverse of the image and naked :)I don't think the states own the rights to this style of imagery... perhaps to it being controversial, though!

I too found this flyer thrown onto my driveway. Unfortunately, my first grader grabbed it first. Note: If all garbage looked like this we would have a cleaner Noe Valley.

My son was fascinated by the poorly drawn Vargas girl, he kept asking me what she was doing and where were her clothes?! My reply, "eating hot sauce and selling BBQ" his reply, "she's sexy". Kudos to 'Baby Blues' for a successful marketing campaign.